by Anzhelina Polonskaya
translated by Andrew Wachtel
Northwestern University Press, 2004
Cloth: 978-0-8101-2088-4 | Paper: 978-0-8101-2089-1
Library of Congress Classification PG3485.2.L59A288 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.715

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Anzhelina Polonskaya is considered one of the freshest voices among young Russian poets. Unlike most of her contemporaries, she was not educated in the classic literary tradition, nor nurtured by the well-known Moscow and Petersburg journals. This has freed her from self-consciously struggling under the weight of her country's literary tradition, and her independent, even idiosyncratic, voice informs poems filled with sharp images, acute observations, and both the pains and joys of personal experience.

Drawn from her most recent Russian collections, A Voice: Selected Poems explores the poet's ongoing fascinations—desolate places, long journeys, a synesthesia of sensory stimulation, and the presence of death. Also on display is her Chekhovian gift for unexpected closure. This is a promising English-language debut from a poet already gaining international attention.